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Feature Story Mauricio Calvo, executive director of Latino Memphis (L) and Yancy Villa-Calvo, a Memphis artist and community engagement specialist. (Submitted) Diversity

Newly naturalized, the leading family of Latino Memphis votes in their first U.S. election

Dawn NeusesWednesday, August 22, 2018
Development News Volunteers installed planters that form a dividing wall to passing traffic on National Street. Community Development

More funding needed to sustain grassroots community development projects

Michael WaddellThursday, August 16, 2018
Feature Story Sixteen year-old Lexus Carter, a recent graduate of the Girls Empowerment Program and one of the rally's nine student organizers, poses for a picture outside of Dave Wells Community Center. (Shelda Edwards) Community Development

Youth-led Klondike-Smokey City peace rally strengthens community in wake of tragedy

Cole BradleyThursday, August 2, 2018
Feature Story AngelStreet Arts and Culture

Video: AngelStreet choir brings music and mentorship to North Memphis

Lauren Squires-ReadyThursday, July 26, 2018
Development News The 800 Initiative Diversity

The City's latest MWBE inclusion numbers show growth & minority-owned business accelerator kicks off

Michael WaddellWednesday, July 25, 2018
Feature Story Student entrepreneur Barak Muhammad makes gardening a family affair as he explains how to use a garden claw to his younger brother. (Cole Bradley) Kids and Education

Kingsbury High grows health and entrepreneurship with city’s first student-led farmers market

Cole BradleyWednesday, July 11, 2018
Feature Story The front of the Burkle estate and Slave Haven museum as seen from North Second Street. (Brandon Dahlberg) Diversity

People's power: Memphis’ early history of race, resistance, and Black political power

Cole BradleyThursday, June 28, 2018
Featured Post Baptist Memorial Health Care along with several partners recently hosted a “Black Men in White Coats” youth summit designed to help pave the way for minority students to pursue a career in medicine. Diversity

Memphis hospitals building a more diverse workforce

Andy MeekWednesday, June 27, 2018
Development News Heights Line enhancement project Community Development

Community LIFT grants lead to grassroots neighborhood development

Michael WaddellTuesday, June 26, 2018
Feature Story Lydia Walker walks between the building which houses the Memphis CHiLD clinic and the LeBonheur's main campus. (Brandon Dahlberg) Kids and Education

When your child has a medical diagnosis, you just might need a lawyer

J. Dylan SandiferThursday, June 21, 2018
Feature Story A 1938 photo of the Lions Open Air School. (Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries) Kids and Education

In segregated Memphis, radio DJs drove Black children with disabilities to this Uptown school

Tamara WilliamsonThursday, June 14, 2018
Development News Kenneth Worles solidified the focus of his business while working in Washington for several years. Entrepreneurship

Three(i) sets sights on 1st Memphis office by July

Michael WaddellWednesday, June 6, 2018
Feature Story An Uptown resident adds her priorities to a list of possible new developments. (Community Redevelopment Agency) Community Development

Uptown residents set priorities in $95 million TIF expansion

Cole BradleyThursday, May 10, 2018
Feature Story Rev. James Lawson (second from left), AFSCME president Lee Saunders, Al Sharpton and Rev. Martin Luther King III march together. (Andrea Morales/MLK50) Eonomic Development

Memphis' MLK50 commemoration marks ‘time for a political revolution’

Kevin McKenzie. MLK50Thursday, April 5, 2018
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